Counseling

AUGUSTA, GA – Legacy graduates talk about the reasons they followed parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings to the campus of Augusta University to complete their degrees. Click the photo below to watch the video.

AUGUSTA, GA. – Dr. Richard Deaner, professor of counselor education at Augusta University, has been selected to receive the 2017 American Counselor Association Counselor Educator Advocacy Award. The ACA Counselor Educator Advocacy Award recognizes a counselor educator for work in fostering an awareness of and expertise in advocacy among counseling students. …

Above, Traci Westin (back row, second from left) poses with faculty and students from the Department of Advanced Studies and Innovation. From the bottom left to right is Dr. Meredith Rausch, Dr. Margaux Brown, Ashley Jackson, Travis Keels. From top left to right is Matt Bestic, Traci Westin, Tracey Carter (LPCA …

AUGUSTA, GA. – This month, 12,400 men will pay for sex with a young woman in Georgia – and 7,200 of them will end up exploiting an adolescent female. It’s known as human trafficking – or, more specifically, sex trafficking – and it is a $290 million industry in this …

AUGUSTA, GA. – Dr. Richard Deaner, professor of counselor education at Augusta University, has been selected to receive the 2016 University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award. Created in 1996, the Regents’ Awards program recognizes the finest among the USG faculty who significantly improve student success …

AUGUSTA, GA. Michelle Harrell has been immersed in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder since childhood. Her brother as well as both her children were all diagnosed with ADHD. In addition to medication, cognitive-behavioral therapies, and physical therapy, Harrell was able to help her children with a newer alternative treatment called nutritional …

AUGUSTA, GA – Students in the Augusta University College of Education’s Department of Counselor Education, Leadership and Research will raise money to promote mental health by celebrating Valentine’s Day through Candy Grams. For $3 (or two for $5), members of Chi Sigma Iota, the counseling honor society, will deliver a …

AUGUSTA, GA. – After sorting and counting the mountain of supplies donated to the Chi Sigma Iota donation drive for SafeHomes of Augusta, the tally is in. The Augusta University College of Education raised more than $2,700 worth of supplies to support the mission of the local domestic violence agency …

AUGUSTA, GA – Dr. Michelle Bryan, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina, has been named Chair of Counselor Education, Leadership & Research in the College of Education at Georgia Regents University. An educator with more than 16 years of classroom and administrative experience, Bryan has …

AUGUSTA, GA – The Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), a specialized accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, has granted accreditation to the M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and the M.Ed. in School Counseling programs in the Georgia Regents University …